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Breastfeeding to formula. HELP!
So my son has turned 8 months and along with weaning I feel it’s the right time for me to switch over to formula. However, I really need some help doing so. Where do I start? He’s not a regular “6/7” feeds a day. Everyday is different. My husband gave him a bottle of formula before bed the other night when I wasn’t there. He took it really well and fell asleep beautifully. But when I’m home in the house he’s refusing and having a meltdown as he sees me and knows what he wants. I have fed him to sleep in the past. (No judging please) you do what you got to do at the time. However, now I guess that’s what he wants. Any tips please. I can’t bare him being upset especially before bed!
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I still feed my 19 month old to sleep 🤷 Honestly it's just going to be hard. No two ways about it. Drop feeds very slowly. When you stop you may get hit by big sad feels so be prepared. Its hormonal!
Could you try expressing some breast milk and giving in a bottle initially? Then once he's used to that switch to a mix of breast milk and formula until you can just give formula. My breast fed baby will take breast milk from a bottle (me feeding her) no problem but often puts up more fight over formula
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Feeding to sleep is what nature intended! We still feed to sleep at 15 months with no intentions of stopping. Baby likely won’t accept a bottle from you/ with you around without some protest and upset as they want to nurse and know you have milk. Consistency will be key but if you’re wanting to wean you’ll need to accept it’ll cause upset and support your little one through their feelings and meet their needs for connection in other ways x